Pete Holmes

Show Summary

As the show opens up, Adam welcomes Michael Narren to the show. Recently the guys worked on a new eBook, ‘Rich Man, Poor Man,’ which Michael animated. They also talk about his journey moving out to LA and now working for Family Guy. The guys then jump to the Twitter feed to chose their favorite Rich Man Poor Man submissions, and take fan phone calls about forced sterilization, crapping at work, and the defunct blog ‘Adam Carolla is Wrong.’

Comedian Pete Holmes joins the podcast next, and talks about his experience as the voice of the eTrade baby. Adam relates to long voice over sessions, and complains about having to read new copy even after doing 400 takes. Adam and Pete also talk about a fierce competition to eliminate multiple cities with the same name.

In the last part of the show, Alison begins the news discussing John Huntsman dropping out of the Presidential race. Adam also talks about Martin Luther King, Jr., and says that it’s probably for the best that he died before the TMZ culture of today. Other stories include updates on the Italian cruise ship disaster, and a survey about the supposedly great places to have a ‘quicky.’

A nice long podcast is great, especially considering that the MediaFly App saves your place automatically, but 181MB is pretty huge.
Are you switching permanently to 256kbps / stereo? That seems a bit much for a podcast; you might want to consider continuing to offer the 64kbps / mono stream, since the audio quality is usually fine.

256 kbps bit rate is uncalled for and unnecessary, why go from 64 kbps all the way to 256? Try 128 kbps or 192 kbps. That’s also a huge impact on paying for bandwidth, if people are downloading directly from this website. Gots to get it on, 256 kbps style, I can hear Allison’s nose hairs at this bit rate. Laterhosen!

One 181MB, 256 kbps podcast is reason for argument. There are other pods that have a 40 kbps, barely pushing 50 MB per episode, and have the same, if not better sound quality….ahhhh f-it, who cares. I’m too drunk to care. White guy problems.

Hey man, 256K is also what I earn annually, well…before taxes, also before child support, before student loan debt, massive credit card debt and I’m underwater on my McMansion. So I guess the real question is, do you need a white guy to take care of your yard?

A cruise ship listing sideways engenders all sorts of nightmares, such as me underwater, fighting in my underwear, gasping for air and no where to go, but it’s funny. Funny because it’s such a pompous vessel.

I like hearing Bryan in the background, tossing out “Ha” like Mrs. Krabapple. I’m not sure if it was Pete laughing loudly through the end of the show or Michael Narren, but his laugh wasn’t as pleasant as Bryan’s, to my ears.

If Adam is 6’2, is every single guest just really tall? Just taking the last three for example — Pete Holmes, Dr. Bruce, and Donald Faison — all are basically the same height or taller. I realize 6’2 isn’t THAT tall, but your average dude is usually closer to 5’10.

My stamps are grandfathered in haha they say forever on them and the dude told me they’d always be good…..sweet cuz i bought a book since I mail a check every 6 months…..so they better be forever damnit

A week or so again Ace asked Alison if he was a dick for forcing Lynette to finish the small champagne bottle she bought because free champagne was available in the lobby. But his argument was that he’s “out of work” etc. We’ll I’m listening to the Carcast and here’s the barometer for Dickishness. If you are wealthy enough to buy race cars (currently purchasing race cars…Fitzy Datsun e.g.)…you can’t give your wife shit for buying a $30 bottle of champagne. You are a dick if you do that. And Alison is a toady for saying no (when she knew better). Ace, I love you…but calling a spade a spade.

I tried listening to Pete Holme’s podcast but his obnoxious laugh and calling everyone a sharpshooter when they just point out one of his many flaws made me stop pretty early. The Marc Maron episode was okay, because I could pretend he was interviewing a hack instead of some hack having a podcast with a legitimate talent as a guest.